lay an egg (third-person singular simple present lays an egg, present participle laying an egg, simple past and past participle laid an egg)
- (of a bird or other egg-creating animal) To produce an egg.
- (idiomatic, of a person, organization, etc.) To produce a failure or flop; to do something which is unsuccessful.
That author usually writes good stuff, but he really laid an egg with that last piece.
to produce an egg
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 產卵／产卵 (caan2 leon5-2, caan2 leon5)
- Mandarin: 產卵／产卵 (zh) (chǎnluǎn)
- Dutch: leggen (nl)
- Esperanto: demeti ovon (eo)
- Estonian: munema
- Faroese: verpa
- Finnish: munia (fi)
- French: pondre un œuf (fr)
- Friulian: ovâ
- German: ein Ei legen (de)
- Hungarian: tojást rak (hu)
- Icelandic: verpa eggi (is)
- Ido: ovifar (io)
- Interlingua: poner ovo
- Japanese: 産卵する (ja) (sanran suru), 卵を生む (ja) (たまごをうむ, tamago wo umu)
- Polish: składać jajo impf, złożyć jajo pf, składać jaja (pl) impf, złożyć jaja (pl) pf
- Portuguese: pôr um ovo (pt), botar um ovo (pt), ovar
- Romanian: oua (ro)
- Russian: снести́ яйцо́ pf (snestí jajcó), отложи́ть яйцо́ pf (otložítʹ jajcó)
- Spanish: poner un huevo (es), ovar (es), huevear (es) (Andes)
- Swedish: värpa (sv)
- Thai: วางไข่ (th) (waang-kài)
- Torricelli: acom
- Walloon: ponre èn oû (wa)e
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to produce a failure or flop
- Finnish: munata (fi), epäonnistua (fi)
- French: faire un bide (fr), faire un flop (fr)
- Italian: fare un buco nell'acqua (literally “make a hole in the water”)
- Japanese: 失敗する (しっぱい する, shippai suru)
- Portuguese: fazer fiasco, fracassar (pt)
- Russian: сесть в лу́жу pf (sestʹ v lúžu, literally “sit into a puddle”), сесть в кало́шу pf (sestʹ v kalóšu, literally “sit into a galosh”), провали́ться (ru) pf (provalítʹsja), потерпе́ть неуда́чу pf (poterpétʹ neudáču)
- Spanish: poner un huevo, fracasar (es)
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